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More 2 Life appoints director of funding and product development

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Roland Steere as director of funding and...

New residential lending tiers at Aldermore

Aldermore has created two new lending tiers across its standard range of residential mortgages. The...

Together hires new lending director

Robert Goodall is joining Together as its new lending director will be based at...

Aldermore to share BTL research at MBE Leeds Expo

Aldermore’s Roger Evans will hold a CPD seminar at the Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) Leeds, discussing the...

Legal & General launches Critical Illness Extra

Legal & General has announced the launch of a new critical illness upgrade option,...

The Coventry confirms appointment of new chair

The Coventry Building Society has confirmed the appointment of Gary Hoffman as non-executive director...

Record quarter for Mantra Capital

Boutique commercial finance consultancy Mantra Capital has reported that March was its biggest ever month for...

Broker Conveyancing unveils fixed price BTL remo deals

Broker Conveyancing has launched a new range of fixed-price buy-to-let remortgage conveyancing products for...

Scotland house prices rising at fastest rate in a decade

Your Move and Acadata have reported that annual price growth in Scotland accelerated to...

Many Brits expect never being able to give up work

33% of non-retired adults in the UK say they will only have a state...

New NatWest products represent ‘first step towards offering tailored customer pricing’

NatWest has launched new high value remortgage rates for new and existing customers who...

Government urged to improve access to finance for property SMEs

LendInvest is calling on the UK government to forge better partnerships with the alternative...

Aldermore funds £6m commercial property development facility

Acre Invest has agreed a £6.27m funding package with Aldermore, to build a large...

AA offering minimum mortgage payments of £1

AA Mortgages has launched a range of new benefits to its customers that allows...

COMMENT

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...

Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...

L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...

West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

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